[visionlist] CVS Symposium, Photons and Neurons

[David Williams]

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 *Symposium Reminder*
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Key Dates:
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Poster abstract submission:  April 30.
Travel fellowship application deadline:  April 30
Notification of poster abstract acceptance:  May 15.
Notification of travel fellowship funding: May 15.
Registration closes:  May 25.
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The Center for Visual Science's 27th Symposium

Photons and Neurons

June 4th - 6th, 2010
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

Conference website:   http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/symposium.html

Overview
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Optical imaging promises to revolutionize neuroscience by offering 
minimally-invasive, direct recording of neural activity at single cell 
resolution in the intact working brain. Optical imaging of neural 
activity, however, has yet to deliver the ultimate prize of recording 
the activity of many individual neurons in real time throughout the 
depth of a brain structure such as the cerebral cortex.  Achieving such 
a goal will require the coordinated effort of experts from disparate 
backgrounds, including neuroscientists, optical engineers, biochemists 
and molecular biologists. The goal of the 27th CVS Symposium is to bring 
together scientists who develop and use optical imaging methods and will 
provide a platform to exchange ideas, identify pressing neurobiological 
questions, discuss current limitations, and develop possible solutions. 
Individual sessions will cover the following topics: Imaging CNS 
circuits, Advances in Optical imaging, Imaging the senses, and 
Controlling neurons with light.

 Confirmed speakers
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 Eric Betzig, Janelia Farm
 Bart Borghuis, Janelia Farm
 Ed Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 David Fitzpatrick, Duke University
 Tim Holy, Washington University
 Mark Hubener, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
 Rich Kramer, University of California, Berkeley
 Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University
 Zachary Mainen, Champalimaud Foundation
 Donald Miller, Indiana University
 Christopher Moore, MIT
 Maiken Nedergaard, University of Rochester
 Austin Roorda, University of California, Berkeley
 Anna Roe, Vanderbilt University
 Eyal Seideman, Univeristy of Texas at Austin
 Lihong Wang, Washington University
 Samuel Wang, Princeton University
 Chris Xu, Cornell University
 Rafael Yuste, Columbia University

 Registration fees
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 Graduate students and postdocs: $90.
 All others: $250.

 Program Committee
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 Ania Majewska and David Williams (University of Rochester) and Tony 
Movshon (New York University)
 For queries about the meeting, contact Debbie Shannon at 585-275-2459 
or debbie at cvs.rochester.edu.

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David R. Williams
Director, Center for Visual Science
William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics
University of Rochester
Box 270270
Rochester, New York 14627-0270
TEL 585 275-8672, FAX 585 271-3043